RESIDENTS IN REVOLT.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 3

RESIDENTS IN REVOLT.

« V'Atl AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH ! DEPARTMENT. '.PHRSS ASHOCIATIO. TELZCRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 30. Tho Avondalo residents are getting ready to declare war on tho Public Heaith Department. Resentment juns very high over tho action of tho Department in deciding that a site within tho township should be used as a sanitary depot. In order that tho scheme should not bo allowed to proceed, tho residents recently erected -substantial barriers across tho road leading to tho property used as tho depot. The Road Hoard "also posted notices declaring that tho road was under repair, and closed to trafGc. Two nights ago the District Health Officer, accompanied by a number of police and the sanitary contractors, went along about midnicht and demolished the barricades. The Avondalo residents, however, are not accepting this rebuff, and it has been arranged that to-niybt a strong citizens' defence party shall assemble and erect barricades, which will take more than an hour or two to shift. The Road Board has also decided to go ahead at once with its scheme for remaking this particular road, and the initial stop taken will be the ploughing up of the whole thoroughfare, so that traffic will be entirely, suspended. = i